FRED WILSON – AFRO KISMET
2019-04-15Fred Wilson’s Afro Kismet lays bare questions of visibility: where are Africans in historical accounts of early Europe? How have the narratives institutionalized by museums erased the presence of black individuals of the past and present? Over seven trips to Istanbul, Fred Wilson researched these questions, continuing the project he started in Re: Claiming Egypt and Speak of Me as I Am, his shows at the 1992 Cairo Biennale and 2003 Venice Biennale. In those works, Wilson revealed the history of black people living in each respective region — histories made obsolete in the Western collective imagination. He continues to interrogate
the peripheral treatment of such histories in Afro Kismet, this time mining the history of Istanbul.
Opposite – Melt / Spurt, 2014
Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2019
Maccarone
300 South Mission Road
CA 90033
Los Angeles
